HIV Testing for Men: Why Knowing Your Status Changes Everything
A lot of what men believe about HIV was formed in the 1980s and 1990s and has not been updated since. The picture that comes to mind is a fatal illness, a wasting decline, a…
Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer: When Monitoring Is the Right Treatment
5 September, 2026 active surveillance Dr. Raymond Nash low prostate cancer PSA testing watchful waiting 8:15 am
Being told you have cancer and then being told the plan is to watch it produces a particular kind of unease. It sounds like inaction, or like being placed at the back of a queue.…
Stimulant Use on Long Shifts: Cocaine, Meth, and the Northern Workforce
4 September, 2026 Alberta cocaine Dr. Isaac Klein methamphetamine northern workforce Stimulant use 1:10 pm
It rarely begins as a decision to use drugs. It begins with a fourteen-hour shift, a two-hour drive, a rotation with no real days off, and someone on the crew who has something that makes…
Health Anxiety in Men: When Worry About Illness Becomes the Illness
2 September, 2026 Anxiety Disorders Dr. Isaac Klein Dr. Raymond Nash Health Anxiety Obsessive 7:50 am
It might have started with a genuine scare — a colleague’s heart attack, a relative’s diagnosis, an abnormal result that turned out to be nothing. Since then a man finds himself checking. He palpates the…
Understanding Syphilis: Stages, Symptoms, and Why Testing Matters
30 August, 2026 Canada Dr. Raymond Nash Health Loss Medical Men's Health Self Sexual Health sti Symptoms syphilis 2:20 pm
For most of the last several decades syphilis was something Canadian physicians read about rather than diagnosed. That has changed. Rates have climbed substantially across Alberta and elsewhere in the country in recent years, including…
Testicular Torsion: The Emergency That Can’t Wait Until Morning
Testicular torsion is one of very few genuine emergencies in urology, and it is defined by time more than by anything else. The spermatic cord twists, the blood supply to the testicle is cut off,…
Cannabis and Men’s Mental Health: What the Evidence Actually Shows
Cannabis occupies an odd space in the conversation about men's health. It has been legal in Canada for years, it is widely used, and the public discussion still tends to split into two unhelpful camps…
Understanding Alexithymia: When You Can’t Name What You Feel
26 August, 2026 alexithymia anger Dr. Isaac Klein emotional awareness emotional literacy irritability 8:15 am
Asked how he is feeling, a man says fine. Pressed, he says he does not know. This is often taken as evasion — by partners, by clinicians, sometimes by the man himself, who assumes he…
Understanding Penile Cancer: A Rare Diagnosis Worth Recognizing
Penile cancer is genuinely rare in Canada, and most men will never encounter it. The difficulty is not how often it occurs but how long it typically takes to reach a physician. The average delay…
Preparing for Urological Surgery: Questions to Ask Before You Consent
The consent conversation often happens at the least useful moment. A man has just been told he needs an operation, he is still absorbing the first half of what was said, and a form appears.…